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Seeing as space and time are unified. Once something exists on a technical level it will always exist. Having a very limited perspective doesn't mean that the entirety of existence isn't a whole. So yes everyone is immortal just not necessarily in the sense they may like. Beyond that I am not sure I would want to continue forward with conscious existence. Based upon this life it isn't inconceivable that another plane of existence couldn't in fact be much worse.

Before I continue forward I want to warn some here that the following can cause a crisis of faith. I am not talking about a avoidable hell. Which in itself is a sick fucking idea. I am talking about the depth of time. Even if a afterlife was initially pleasant it might actually be unsustainable. While time may well be infinite rest assured that the available stimuli is most certainly not. Eventually you will run out of things to do, and have forever to dwell upon that fact. So if a eternal afterlife is true it could actually be the stuff of horrible nightmares. Those that are dead may end up with a strong wish that death had been permanent.

All of this before you consider an equally unsavory notion. What if a afterlife isn't eternal, but constrained to the life span of the cosmos. Most conjectures hold that the Universe is just going to fizzle out. All of the Universe is going to freeze out, and all the matter will decay into nothingness. You could just end up trading a short span of time to dwell upon your demise. For a unavoidable fate that will be a long time coming. We all know how the threat of death consumes us in this life. Imagine having to stare that down for trillions of years, but as I said in the previous paragraph. On the upside by the time that came you would probably be overjoyed.

Anyway you should look at the prospect of a afterlife with equal parts hope and abject terror.